The Aesop for Children, The Quack Toad, sentence 2
In fact he could cure anything.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: cure · To what, where: anything, fact
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Quack Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 fact | case |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cure | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cure | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cure | aux |
| 5 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 cure | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | could | Toad | anything | fact | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer anything=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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